LMF+Assignments

//LMF Hundley//


1) Students at any age found that learning with a kinesthetic activity was fun and engaging.//** //Al, who learned to tango with his wife was having the time of his life when he was learning to dance. Whether students wre dancing, making models of the moon with clay, or scrap-booking, there was some type physical activity in their testimonials about their fun, learning experience.
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 * 2) All nineteen of the twenty reports verified that having colorful and vibrant instructors allowed the learning to be engaging. Anna was ten years old when her fun learning experience occurred. Even at such a young age, she was able to identify when an instructor loves what he or she does. An eccentric, humorous, and an open-minded leader is one that will snag the student, so to speak, and not let them go during an instructional time. When instructors have the inclination to act less like a messenger and more like an enthusiastic advocate for the subject matter is when the students hang on every word!

****3) Again, nineteen out of twenty students created something in the class**. Grandma Ardis put it best when she said "It was wonderful to create something beautiful." There's value and honor in showing someone how to create something beautiful. One can say creating knowledge in pupils' heads is beautiful, but this was not reported in any of the reports I watched. Whether it was a two-toned t-shirt, a play dough model of a moon, or a pottery bowl, to have something made by one's own two hands is priceless.


 * 4) Instructors were more likely to engage if examples were given.** Al could not have danced so well, Suzanne could not have "broken" that horse and Kamina could not have made that pike jump with just verbal directions. Sixteen of the twenty students appreciated the examples and perhaps non-examples given by the instructors (colorful or not). In these cases, expectations were clear. there was no confusion about what needed to be learned. The students could then focus on the journey or producing the product, whether it was something to see or something to know.


 * 5)** **Students produced something they could show off****.** Lesson plans, a trip around the corral, or a conversation in Russian was the evidence of an effective learning experience. To have knowledge from a class in intrinsically rewarding for most people, but when one can actually demonstrate and prove the knowledge gained could be an extrinsic reward for a learner. And the motivation that accompanies the learner when he or she knows that he or she can demonstrate the learning is sure to rise.//